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Allow select same to work like select all

The "select same" (fill/stroke/style) functions current do not obey the select-all options, which means they select all items in all layers. This leads to some interesting UX confusion between the functions.

This merge request adds a feature which is turned off by default, but when activated will make the select-same features function like the select-all, using the same preferences to see the context (layer-only, layer-plus-children and 'all objects'). Because setting this to true would incur a big behaviour change in Inkscape I've made it optional. I can then ask the UX team to test the differences between this being set and unset on existing users at a later date.

select_same

Sample file: selection_changes.svg

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